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Status: Assigned
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 2
Type: Feature

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issue 726818


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Need fullscreen capability in ChromeOS public session mode

Reported by joe.har...@p89.uk, Mar 1 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 7647.84.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36
Platform: 7647.84.0 (Official Build) stable-channel rikku

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Enable public session mode in chrome management console
2. Login to a public session on a chrome device
3. Visit a page with a video and try to view fullscreen

What is the expected behavior?
From an end user perspective, the expected behaviour is that when they click the fullscreen icon on a video, it should go full screen.

What went wrong?
On some sites, clicking the fullscreen icon on a video does nothing and gives no user feedback e.g. bbc.co.uk. Other sites, e.g. youtube.com trying to use the fullscreen function effectively breaks the page: the video goes fullpage (not fullscreen) and then won't toggle back to standard size.

Altogether this leads to user confusion, frustration and a less than favourable impression of the device - it appears broken - which is a real shame given that it's otherwise fantastic.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 48.0.2564.116  Channel: stable
OS Version: 7647.84.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 20.0 r0

I have seen the chrome policy to disable fullscreen that is automatically applied in public session mode and I've seen other discussions regarding the desire to prevent the Exit Session button being covered etc. However, for us that's not a problem and would need to have the possibility of controlling this policy.

We've been trialling a couple of chrome devices in Public Session mode in order to provide casual web browsing / entertainment facilities to visitors, with a view to replacing a load of our existing devices. The low cost and low management overhead, security, and general ease of use make these the ideal device for our requirements - except the lack of fullscreen capability is a deal-breaker sadly.
 
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
Owner: kuscher@chromium.org
Cc: vidster@chromium.org
Owner: saswat@chromium.org
+ENT PMs - I think this is disabled for a reason.

Comment 4 by joe.har...@p89.uk, Apr 13 2016

Do you know why full screen is disabled? It would be great to have the option to enable it!

Comment 5 by saswat@chromium.org, Oct 25 2016

Owner: dskaram@chromium.org
Cc: atwilson@chromium.org mnissler@chromium.org
Components: -UI UI>Shell>PublicAccounts
Owner: sduraisamy@chromium.org
Blockedon: 726818
Labels: Hotlist-Enterprise

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Comment 10 by mbre...@gmail.com, Jun 5 2017

#4 - re: reasons, see here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=275405

#7 @sduraisamy - that issue is private. Can it be made public? (trying to determine if that fixes an issue I was having, too)

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